The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-02-09
BRIC-.A.BRAC.

We loanel you, Charlie, long ago.
4 dissolvins view-Growing blind.
There arc a great many Orange men in
Florida
.That'sa a flame of mine" as the bellows
sad to the fire.
Evening shoes are again becoming quite
fanciful in color and design.
It costs over $4,000 to bury dead Con-
gresham. Irish wakes are cheaper.
No woman of fashion can have too much
ict on the waist and skirt OF her drcsS now
&-days. -
GP.c,,u!ation is what men and women think
Of us: !aractcris what God and thc angels
know II us.
Never take u crooked path while you see
! straight one.
Pa" said little fellow 10 his unshaven
| father. your chin looks like the wheel III
the musical box
Never growl at the weather. Noah did
not. and he witnessed 40 days of the wcttcst
weather that man ever saw.
Il Say No" is the title Of a new story.
1t sounds like 4 husband answering q wife $
request fer Z scalsllin cloak.
What ais this heart of minc?" is the
mclot.ious way in which some vocallsts
refer 70 an affection of the liver.
IN exchange speaks of 4 man who ''lies
! in q critical condition" Most everybody
viii lie when they get in tight fix.
py rubbing a cats back in the dark you
can see the electricity fly, and when the cat
claws your hand you can feel the shock.
Although pugilists seem to be willing to
appear in the ring they are generally roped
into it,
InGuircr-No. Itwas not Sir VIM. Penn,
bat plain VIM. Penn; there was no handle
20 that Penn.
The man who thinks hc can communi-
cate freely by telephone, is laboring under
a halioosination.
Some one wants to know if q bee is angry
Wien ii stings. We are not sure abou: the
bee. but the victim is.
1t is said there is bitter feeling among
the MASTERS Perhaps somebody has been
putting hops in the beer.
Pythagoras believed that man ascended
FROM the bean. He probably would have
regarded Bostonians as cannibals
Ladies' hats nowadays are somewhat
too aspiring for the convenience of the folks
who sit behind them in the theatre.
Mr.. Onion has Just failed out in Nebras-
ka: but It cannot be said that he has not 4
scent to his name.
\ Burlington mother has miraculously
cared her youngest hopeful of smoking by
! the laying on OF hands.
When Mr.. Carpenter married Miss Barber
lest week not a newspaper IL the land said
anything about the future race Of shavcrs.
Two brothers in New York have not
spoken to each other for 30 years. They
are deaf mutes.
A Frenchman has conceived the idea of
having lady advertisers who will show his
goods on the promenade.
Pcrnicicus egotism is another mans de-
sire to tell you about himself when You
wish 10 tell him about yourself.
When an idler enters the sanctum of a
! busy editor and the editor says, Glad to
see you're back, what docs he mean?
The singer who understands thp manage
m2;it Of lis breath is considered 4 great
artist 1t ought to be the same way with a
barber.
But, SAID the serenaded man, Il must
60 out and make q speech. Something
,?;;st be done TO stop the playing Of that
band.
4 newly Texas man shot bis
bride While she was mixing her first batch
Of biscuits His plea in court was self
i defence
Yes, said the. Terrc Hautc man: I'm
rather glad, on the whole, that there's 4
law against gambling on Sunday. 1t gives
Us one day, to saw wood.
\ maiden lady says that if single life is
! bad it staads to reason that double life is
twice as bad But ladies rarely understand
mathematics.
There is nothing new under the sun,
sayeth the psalmist. This seems TO bear
! OFT the theory that negro minstrelsy origi-
mated III the ark.
Why is it that q woman with costly
! fan finds the atmosphere in the theatre so
warm while the man next to her is think
in- Of putting on his overcoat?
Chicago clcrgymen sincerely hope the
h;ilct is on its last lcgs.-ADany Aryus.
The cIcrgymcn have evidently given care
fGl attention to the support of the ballet
An Oakland, Cal, paper in referring to
the death of I citizen recently, said that he
'.had gone to happier homo" And now,
ii is said, the widow threatens a libel suit.
Asa protection against cold, newspaper
worn across the chest is recommended.
Gentlemen who had a newspaper warming
can testify to its thoroughness.
The wife Of Wisconsin editor brings
her baby's cradle into the office while she
| se:s type for her husbands paper She is
d good type of woman for an editors wife.
Ii is & mean servant-girl who, to crafty
petty malice, will put Goldfish on the
range TO boil when she knows that her mis-
trcss is entertaining company in the parlor.
An oyster ten inches long was found on
TIC Long Island coast the other day. When
oysters get up to these dimensions the
chestnut church fair stew will lose.
\ professor of palmistry in New Yo k
says ii IS impossible TO tell lie with the
hands closed. Yes, and it is rather
dangerous to tell a man he lies who has his
hands closed
i young lady writcsto inquire how long
4 young gentleman should be acquainted
With her ucforc she allowed him to kiss
her. Long enough for her father and big
brothcr to have gone to bed.
/ man who had been drinking went
home lie cthcr night ana erowlcd so at his
wife tha. size called him her sour mash.